Thanks to the repulsive word ‘lockdown’: they’ve made us all prisoners
Peter Hitchens – Mail on Sunday May 23, 2020
We will never get out of this now. It will go on for ever. We will not be free people again.
Anti-lockdown protester in London’s Hyde Park recently. Click to enlarge
Even when we seem to be free we will be like prisoners on parole, who can be snatched back to their cells at a moment’s notice.
I think I now understand why this period has come to be known by the repulsive word ‘lockdown’, an American term which describes the punishment of rioting convicts in a penitentiary, by confining them in their cells for long periods.
I hate this word, because it does not seem to me to be fitting to describe free people in a free country.
But we are no longer such people, or such a country. We have become muzzled, mouthless, voiceless, humiliated, regimented prisoners, shuffling about at the command of others, stopping when told to stop, moving when told to move, shouted at by jacks-in-office against whom we have no appeal.
We are learning, during this induction period, to do what we are told and to become obedient, servile citizens of a new authoritarian State. We are unlearning the old rules of freedom.
All the things we used to take for granted now belong to the State, which can hand them back to us if we are good, and yank them away from us again if we are bad, or if it can think of an excuse.
And there will always be an excuse, a rise in the fictional ‘R’ rate, an ‘emergency’ that can be exaggerated into fear, whether it be a virus, a terror threat or even the new Middle Eastern war that I have long feared is coming.
But who would have thought it would be Covid-19, of all things, that would be the pretext for the snuffing out of centuries of liberty?
I have long sensed a desire in our new elite to be more powerful. It goes with their belief that they are so wonderful that nobody ought to disagree with them.
You could tell that they longed for curfews, to go on the TV with grim faces and tell us all to go quietly to our homes, to ban gatherings of more than three people, for our own good. But it never quite worked.
People actually laughed in 2003 when Anthony Blair madly sent tanks to Heathrow Airport to deal with an alleged terror threat, which never materialised.
Al Qaeda was a good bogeyman for a bit, but all the stuffing came out of it, especially when we ended up supporting it in Syria. Islamic State had the same basic problem.
Its supposed supporters here almost invariably turned out (like Al Qaeda’s before them) to be fantasists or drugged-up maniacs with no coherent aim or plan. There was never an excuse to fire up the shiny new Civil Contingencies Act, with its enormous dictatorial powers,
But now the new Strong State, growing in our midst for decades, has finally become powerful enough to emerge in all its naked nastiness. Or rather, all the proper institutions of a civil society have grown so weak that the Strong State can now get its way.
The married family, the independent middle-class, able to make a decent living on the basis of hard-won qualifications, the political parties, Parliament itself, the Opposition, the Monarchy, the Armed Forces, the Church (pathetically anxious to close itself), the Civil Service, most of the media, the BBC, are just husks of what they were 50 years ago.
In many cases, bodies supposed to stand up for us now lecture and browbeat us on behalf of the Government. But I think the worst thing of all has been the naked transformation of the police into a politicised state militia. I have had plenty of criticisms of the police before now, and take none of them back.
But their performance in this crisis has been deeply shocking and sad. They have acted as the agents of Ministers, openly taking one side in a political controversy, shouting angrily and menacingly at innocent citizens that they must go home and that, if they do not, they are ‘killing people’.
Lord Sumption. click to enlarge
Hurray, for Peter Hitchens,
it is exactly right what he says, and that is the reason we should get rid of our Elected Leaders and take away their Power, and try to do right by the People without these unelected bureaucrats who went to college and learned from Doctored History, It is now time for the Truth we want what the People Need’s, like the sky’ without Aerosol Spraying , and all Organic food and not just told what it is, and real medicine and not just Big Pharma’s Toxic Rubbish And no more genocidal Murder by Chemo and Radio Therapy for Population Control. It is Now Time, So Let The People Speak.
Tony Blairs New Labour was a Mossad front Op
to clear the Middle East for the Greater Israel project.
Stupid British and US soldiers did the jews dirty work.
There were marches in every UK town and city telling the soldiers
” do not go” For those cowards who did not have the courage to say no
many came home after to find their families had shut them out.
Rothschild said if we leave his EU we will be punished and some are saying this virus
is just the start.
Understand this, all supermarkets in the UK are not in completion, they are one big cartel financed by Rothschild and Oppenheimer.
A senior Tesco manager said recently a plan is coming where they shut their doors
to the goyim, start growing your own veg now, in window boxes gardens tubs anything.
” each man will eat the flesh of his own arm” Isiaah 9 20
They have promised to starve us and they will
Unless we speak out and act together to put a stop to it. The French people have been magnificent in their resistance to the NWO plans
what are we going to do ?
Asshole ! Instead of trying to wake up those
still sleeping you sound as if
there is no hope left. Whom are you
working for ??
There is little hope now. If the vast majority of citizens in a country still believe the 911 LIE, as is the case in America, then they believe the virus scam.
Its all coming out now about atrocities commited on the war on the people of Iraq
the media is saying its the US troops, but let me tell you something
Before I was married I used to work in the coffee bar at Gosport Hants
all the sailor boys used to get drunk and look to beat up people, one young lad aged 17 who used to come to the coffee bar pulled up at the lights on his moped and was beaten to death by sailors, they used to like to beat up teenagers on motorbikes and scooters
One evening a car load of drunk sailors pulled over a lad on a motorbike,
he explained he was part of the volunteer emergency force rushing a spare heart to a hospital for transplant
they pulled him off his bike, they did not realise he was an SAS sergeant and he put 5 of them in hospital
There was a huge cover up of all the violence and Dave Turner SAS sergeant
was given free cooffes for life
Our service men ? I would not piss on them if they were on fire
@Tony Lane….”it is exactly right what he says, and that is the reason we should get rid of our Elected Leaders and take away their Power, and try to do right by the People without these unelected bureaucrats who went to college and learned from Doctored History”……………
Surely you mean the UNELECTED Civil Servants and NOT our ELECTED LEADERS who were voted for by the people!! or are you that Far Left you don’t understand the DIFFERENCE between ‘elected politicians’ and unelected far left Bureaucrats!!
It’s now wrong to talk to people unless there is some kind of electronic device monitoring what you say, lest you speak ill of Big Brother. Make sure you always distance yourself from others lest you catch some of their humanity on your sleeve. Be careful not to congregate lest you feel part of a community and free to assemble. When you leave your home make sure you walk in lock step only to permitted destinations deemed essential by the State. But when you get one of these psyop planners alone in some isolated place make sure you do not miss your chance to give him some of that Agenda equity.
British and Blind is the not Knowing that those Leaders were already chosen before you Voted.
Tony Lane: You’re right ON!!! And yes, our “leaders” are chosen. To vote for them is just given them a stamp of your approval.
Thank for the Spirited reply, I really wanted to say that I am British But Not Proud, there is so much about Britain and America to be Ashamed of, so we have to be Glad that we are free thinking Human Beings and forget about the Patriotic Bullshit, we already have Political Control, religious Control and Patriotic Control now you can add to that Entertainment control, so we must Strive harder to be as individual as possible, and the Powers that Be do not like That at all.
Another excellent piece by Peter Hitchens. who has been stepping up and telling it like it is.
“This is what a police state is like. It’s a state in which the government can issue orders or express preferences with no legal authority and the police will enforce Ministers’ wishes.” No legal authority. Let that sink in.
About a month or so ago, there was a group of people trying to gather for a church service and a slew of police were dispatched to break it up and send them off. This touched off a conversation between myself and an assortment of police. One of the tin badge knuckle-draggers stated, “well they (the public wanting to gather) have to obey legal orders…”, to which I responded, “See that’s the thing, those orders from the police AREN’T legal in this case because they’re based on guidelines or suggestions, not law. The last time I checked, you’re job is :LAW enforcement NOT suggestion enforcement.”